But seriously, how many sniper's actually fire in the dark? Isn't it kinda hard to see your target at night? I would imagine most of these jobs are during daylight hours, and that you're usually a really long way from your target, and that you have some kind of camo blanket that could be covering your face and the phone (only the barrel and the scope really needs to stick out of it right?)...
This is probably a useful product.
Actually someone gave me a copy of Sniper 1 for Christmas about the Siege of CIMIC house
The UK snipers had various night vision sights and they actually fought off the Mehdi army round the clock.
That's an extreme siuation of course, but given that US/UK armies have a huge lead in night vision technology it's actually safer for them to snipe when it's too dark to see.
Dan Mills actually mentions dark adaptation at some point, and how bright lights cause you to lose it for a few seconds which is really not good.
The outgoing President loses power at noon. The presidency passes to the eligible successor. Since Obama had not yet taken the oath, he could not begin his presidential term. So for a few minutes we had President Biden, who had already taken the oath before noon and was therefore eligible.
Actually back in Gonzales's day a memo from The Justice Department's legal devision think that legally there is a 5 minute gap where Total Power resides with the Attorney General. During this period he will become Master of the Universe permanently if he can insert the Amulet of Power into a gap in a secret room under the Whitehouse.
I think you're missing the more pernicious slant of "lulz". Schadenfreude can be laughing at someone who slipped on a banana peel or BillG getting pied. People use lulz to justify aggressively anti-social, sadistic, and purposefully hurtful behavior towards others.
You mean like atomizing their brain from 1500m? Hell, if you used an iPhone you could write up the post pics on/b/ too.
The whole point of calling something a "brick" is that's how useful it is - it can't be made to do anything better, ever again. If you can plug a cable into something, and run a program on your computer that makes it able to store data or play MP3s or whatever, it's CLEARLY more useful than a brick.
Bricks can be useful too. E.g. you could build a house or defend yourself from The Man in a riot or revolution. So maybe bricks aren't bricked.
I don't think a flashlight would be a very good idea for a sniper either. Still at least you could hide under a camo sheet while you were using it. Unlike this thing, which is attached to the barell. What happens if some app on the iPhone decides to turn on the backlight (or you get an SMS or phone call) mid snipe. Not only will light reflect of your face and give your position away, it would also mess up your dark adaption and dazzle you.
Steve Jobs has got a lot nastier since the cancer came back. Now they sell an aimer application for white phosphorus shells localized into Hebrew on AppStore.
I wonder if Microsoft have copied Intel's Tick-Tock strategy. Intel introduce a new architecture and then a die shrink alternately.
Maybe Microsoft's ticks are new architecture - Vista moves lots of drivers out of kernel mode and introduced UAC and Aero. The tocks are performance tune ups - The Windows 7 beta seems substantially faster than Vista.
You could argue that Windows 2000 was a tick - it introduced plug and play into an NT based OS and XP was a performance boosting tock. XP booted faster than Windows 2000 and seems to me to be generally snappier.
Of course it's not completely clear cut. XP and Windows 7 both have UI improvements. I think you could argue that Win2k and Vista had more deep architectural changes than their predecessors and were noticeably slower though.
You could sequester the CO instead by using to gas bunnies, weighting the bunny corpses down with compacted garbage and chucking them into the ocean somewhere where it is really deep.
Oh you said a green solution. Sorry, try the next cubicle along. Chap with the pony tail will help you.
... Jesus Christ almighty. You can figure it out easily enough, plus you won't do anything meaningful about it anyhow, so what's the point of complaining?
Please don't butcher quantum mechanics like that. It's not like there are details which are left unfixed; it's that certain notions are incompatible with each other.
For instance, it's not like a particle might have some particular momentum and velocity, but somehow the universe is just being lazy about deciding their values. Rather, the notion of having a definite momentum and definite position is contradictory.
QM is much weirder than you think.
I'm not sure the uncertainty principle is that weird. Consider, I have an atom in a box. If I want to find its location I need to fire short wavelength photons at at it to get a high res image. Short wavelength photons have high energy so they wack the atom around, i.e change its velocity. Or I could use long wavelength photons. Low res image but I don't change the atom's velocity by much.
It's like some physicist said to me about Shrödingers cat. "If two people open the box, does that mean the wave function collapses twice. The wavefunction collapse is about knowledge, not about reality".
So it's not necessarily that reality is fuzzy and indistinct, more that our knowledge of it is limited.
"When you write some software [...] Things have a habit of being rewritten completely in relatively short intervals."
When you write *privative* software, you meant.
Oh Jesus Christ. Have you just invented a new derogatory term for closed source software in your rambling (but soon to be +5 Insightful) slashdot post as to why Open Source is good?
Slashdot Mirror
But seriously, how many sniper's actually fire in the dark? Isn't it kinda hard to see your target at night? I would imagine most of these jobs are during daylight hours, and that you're usually a really long way from your target, and that you have some kind of camo blanket that could be covering your face and the phone (only the barrel and the scope really needs to stick out of it right?)...
This is probably a useful product.
Actually someone gave me a copy of Sniper 1 for Christmas about the Siege of CIMIC house
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIMIC-House
The UK snipers had various night vision sights and they actually fought off the Mehdi army round the clock.
That's an extreme siuation of course, but given that US/UK armies have a huge lead in night vision technology it's actually safer for them to snipe when it's too dark to see.
Dan Mills actually mentions dark adaptation at some point, and how bright lights cause you to lose it for a few seconds which is really not good.
My interpretation based on what little I've read:
The outgoing President loses power at noon. The presidency passes to the eligible successor. Since Obama had not yet taken the oath, he could not begin his presidential term. So for a few minutes we had President Biden, who had already taken the oath before noon and was therefore eligible.
Actually back in Gonzales's day a memo from The Justice Department's legal devision think that legally there is a 5 minute gap where Total Power resides with the Attorney General. During this period he will become Master of the Universe permanently if he can insert the Amulet of Power into a gap in a secret room under the Whitehouse.
See DOJ vs He Man, Teela, et al, 2006.
I work for ZOG/NWO/UN occupation forces. Oh, and could you move a bit closer to the window.
I think you're missing the more pernicious slant of "lulz". Schadenfreude can be laughing at someone who slipped on a banana peel or BillG getting pied. People use lulz to justify aggressively anti-social, sadistic, and purposefully hurtful behavior towards others.
You mean like atomizing their brain from 1500m? Hell, if you used an iPhone you could write up the post pics on /b/ too.
No matter how many times you post this story, I still say overlining is underappreciated.
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agreed
The whole point of calling something a "brick" is that's how useful it is - it can't be made to do anything better, ever again. If you can plug a cable into something, and run a program on your computer that makes it able to store data or play MP3s or whatever, it's CLEARLY more useful than a brick.
Bricks can be useful too. E.g. you could build a house or defend yourself from The Man in a riot or revolution. So maybe bricks aren't bricked.
I don't think a flashlight would be a very good idea for a sniper either. Still at least you could hide under a camo sheet while you were using it. Unlike this thing, which is attached to the barell. What happens if some app on the iPhone decides to turn on the backlight (or you get an SMS or phone call) mid snipe. Not only will light reflect of your face and give your position away, it would also mess up your dark adaption and dazzle you.
That is pretty twisted. Although it IS said that humor is the best defense mechanism to suffering.
That depends who's suffering, doesn't it?
I think you're neglecting schadenfreude. I think it's funny when bad things happen to bad people. Youngsters have a term for this, it's called lulz.
Steve Jobs has got a lot nastier since the cancer came back. Now they sell an aimer application for white phosphorus shells localized into Hebrew on AppStore.
And a nice bright backlight to illuminate your face to the enemy snipers.
Yup, totally practical.
Quite.
To misquote O'brien in 1984, the future is a Microsoft jackboot on the face of humanity forever.
I wonder if Microsoft have copied Intel's Tick-Tock strategy. Intel introduce a new architecture and then a die shrink alternately.
Maybe Microsoft's ticks are new architecture - Vista moves lots of drivers out of kernel mode and introduced UAC and Aero. The tocks are performance tune ups - The Windows 7 beta seems substantially faster than Vista.
You could argue that Windows 2000 was a tick - it introduced plug and play into an NT based OS and XP was a performance boosting tock. XP booted faster than Windows 2000 and seems to me to be generally snappier.
Of course it's not completely clear cut. XP and Windows 7 both have UI improvements. I think you could argue that Win2k and Vista had more deep architectural changes than their predecessors and were noticeably slower though.
He has buxom virgin cheerleaders that work for him for free, the only problem is they are all male.
You could sequester the CO instead by using to gas bunnies, weighting the bunny corpses down with compacted garbage and chucking them into the ocean somewhere where it is really deep.
Oh you said a green solution. Sorry, try the next cubicle along. Chap with the pony tail will help you.
(I'm the GP)
Suspend to disk is usually OK, as long as you aren't using any proprietary drivers (like graphics drivers). It's suspend to RAM that's often flaky.
So you can have accelerated graphics drivers or working Hibernate and Sleep is always flakey.
Wow a Windows OEM license (cost to me $0) seems better value every day.
... Jesus Christ almighty. You can figure it out easily enough, plus you won't do anything meaningful about it anyhow, so what's the point of complaining?
Other nerds might think you're an Alpha Nerd?
Seeing "cockpit" hyphenated like that led to some disturbing mental images.
Yeah, I know. Roosters can be vicious.
Ah, yes, Idiocracy. You make a compelling argument.
Forget factors like poverty, education of women, and social expectations. It's being stupid that drives up the birth rate.
And I know that because a movie told me so.
Oh, snap!
Please don't butcher quantum mechanics like that. It's not like there are details which are left unfixed; it's that certain notions are incompatible with each other.
For instance, it's not like a particle might have some particular momentum and velocity, but somehow the universe is just being lazy about deciding their values. Rather, the notion of having a definite momentum and definite position is contradictory.
QM is much weirder than you think.
I'm not sure the uncertainty principle is that weird. Consider, I have an atom in a box. If I want to find its location I need to fire short wavelength photons at at it to get a high res image. Short wavelength photons have high energy so they wack the atom around, i.e change its velocity. Or I could use long wavelength photons. Low res image but I don't change the atom's velocity by much.
It's like some physicist said to me about Shrödingers cat. "If two people open the box, does that mean the wave function collapses twice. The wavefunction collapse is about knowledge, not about reality".
So it's not necessarily that reality is fuzzy and indistinct, more that our knowledge of it is limited.
Maybe the universe runs on the programmable calculator God plays with when he should be listening to math lectures.
I think you mean the road to HEIL! is paved with good intentions
If turbidostato supposedly created a "new derogatory term for closed source software", what was it?
Privative software.
priv-a-tive (prv-tv)
adj.
1. Causing deprivation, lack, or loss.
2. Grammar Altering the meaning of a term from positive to negative.
"When you write some software [...] Things have a habit of being rewritten completely in relatively short intervals."
When you write *privative* software, you meant.
Oh Jesus Christ. Have you just invented a new derogatory term for closed source software in your rambling (but soon to be +5 Insightful) slashdot post as to why Open Source is good?
You, sir, are the cancer killing slashdot.
Ahh, the pimp algorithm.
Bitch tell me the key!
WHACK!
Bitch tell me the key!
WHACK!
Get him on 4chan. It'll toughen him up a bit.